Biggest streaming stories - 2025 Recap

DAZN, the sports streaming platform and Foxtel’s new owner, has made a $936 million USD loss in 2024. YouTube has smashed viewership records and ad revenue as it competes head on with old-school TV channels.  Paramount has crashed the Hollywood party with a $108 billion USD hostile bid for Warner…

Biggest tech stories - 2025 Recap

Domain, the Aussie real estate site, will be sold to US real estate giant CoStar in a deal worth $2.8 billion deal after Domain’s majority shareholder gave the thumbs up.  Google has announced its largest acquisition in history - acquiring cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion USD. Meta’s sha…

Biggest retail stories - 2025 Recap

Flux fam, we are back with another WTF recap episode! Today, we’re looking at some of the biggest retail stories from 2025. Retail is one of the lifebloods of the Australian economy. It employs millions of Aussies, fills our shopping centres and gives us a real-time read on how confident people a…

Social media ban hits retailers | ASIC fines Grill'd and MJ Bale | 2025's most downloaded app

Australia’s world-first under 16 social media ban has officially kicked in and that means TikTok, Meta and Snap are plotting their next move ASIC is on a fining-spree after hitting companies like Grill’d, Bob Jane and MJ Bale with fines for failing to lodge their financial accounts ChatGPT has of…

RBA big cash rate call | Paramount cuts Netflix's lunch | Airwallex lands massive VC haul

The Reserve Bank of Australia has paused the cash rate at 3.60% in its final meeting of the year…after inflation reared its ugly ugly head once again. Paramount has crashed the Hollywood party with a $108 billion USD hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery. Airwallex has pulled off Australia’s seco…

Smiggle's slump hits Premier Investments hard | Spotify Wrapped breaks records | Lululemon's founder trolls Lululemon CEO

The company behind Smiggle and Peter Alexander copped a 12% share price drop because school students aren’t digging its colourful stationery anymore. Spotify has just delivered its biggest ever Wrapped launch, with more than 200 million users jumping in within 24 hours. Lululemon’s founder is tro…

H&M Australia's $35 million wage blow-out | Aussie EVs fail testing | Magnum splits from Unilever

H&M Australia is facing a $35 million bill for unpaid wages to Australian staff as it starts to quietly shut down its underperforming stores. Australia’s top electric vehicles have all failed in real-world testing, with some models driving up to 30% less than their advertised battery range. The M…

IGA vs Tobacconists | Aussies fuel KFC profit zing[er] | Shopify tanks after Cyber Monday outage

Metcash has seen its shares fall more than 9% after illegal tobacco casues a $345 million knock in sales. The owner of KFC Australia stores has upgraded its full-year profit guidance after Aussies get stuck into Zinger burgers. Shopify saw its shares plummet 5% after its suffered major outages on…

El Jannah - the billion-dollar chicken chain | Google takes on Nvidia | Harvey Norman's international success

El Jannah, the cult-favourite charcoal chicken chain, is set to be snapped up for almost $1 billion by US private equity giant General Atlantic. Google is taking it up to Nvidia in the chip wars as it looks to sell its own proprietary chips to Meta and its share rose 4% on the news. Harvey Norman…

Temple & Webster's wild drop | Aware Super's $50m marketing blitz | SkinKandy pierces the IPO market

Temple and Webster shares have crashed over 30% even though it saw strong revenue growth and record customer numbers. Aware Super, one of Australia’s biggest super funds has spent nearly $50 million on marketing its industry super fund last year as the race for super dollars heats up. SkinKandy, …